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Curtain tracks
On 25/05/2016 08:39, wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 08:01:35 UTC+1, Chris French wrote:
polygonum Wrote in message:
Will likely be moving to a new house in the near future.
One of the earliest jobs will be putting up curtain tracks as neither of
us can cope with sleeping in rooms that are not sufficiently dark. Seems
to me that we should select one make of track and fittings and use it
throughout. (We might need to consider cording, and maybe a heavier duty
track in the living room with full length curtains. Ideally the same
gliders everywhere.) No bays or any other awkwardness to cope with.
What make track would you choose, and why?
Not so sure on make, but having replaced a few here with it, I
would go for aluminium track rather than plastic, more rigid,
smoother and stays smooth unlike plastic , most of which are
knackered to one extent or another here now.
Plastic tracks do get filthy on the rear, making them stiff. A proper cleanout fixes that.
I used a standard hooks clip over it type track,but Tim Watts
posted a link a while back for some grooved track that looked
good. Hopefully he will pop up on this thread.
The best stuff I saw was many decades old metal track. Each hook had its own little rotating disc it ran on.
NT
In the 1960s we had brass rail with little runners with two discs. When
brand new, clean, and straight, they were OK. (Even then they were
relatively noisy when being drawn.)
After the toll of years, the kinks in the tracks, the pulls which
distorted the runners, etc., they were pretty crap. And still noisy.
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Rod
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